Original Lensbaby Minolta Manual Mount SLR Camera Lens (LBOMD)

List Price: $95.95 Price: $95.95

Product Details Interchangable f/2.8, f/4.0, f/5.6, f/8.0 apertue discs held in place with rubber gasket. All aperture settings included. Note: Lensbaby does not communicate electronically with your camera body Single, uncoated optical glass element captures images with glowing highlights, subtle prismatic color shifts, and, of course, the trademark Lensbaby graduated blur. Anodized aluminum components provide an extremely durable design

Product Description

Lensbabies discriminative focus SLR camera lenses bring one area of your photo into sharp focus, with that wonderful spot surrounded by graduated blur. You can move the sweet spot to any part of your photo by circuitous the flexible lens tubing.

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Customer Reviews

This lens is a huge tool
Since I have a Minolta guide focus camera, which is now an endangered species due to Minolta's sale to Sony, it's not often that I find bran new lenses for it, and I basically had what I needed anyway. But I was interested in this Lensbaby I had seen ads for, so when this went on yard sale I had to pick one up before they stop making them.

The only version available for a Minolta MC/MD-type was this, the original. It's made very sturdy, with a facile bellows and metal parts. This is the simplest version, and requires the photographer to hold the bourn of the lens with his middle and ring fingers while using the rest of his fingers to hold and fire the camera essentials.

You move the edge in or out to focus, and move it up, down, left, or right to move the "sweet spot", which is the one spot which will be in focus while all around has a broad, speed-blur effect, as if in motion. Hold ing the focus/aiming ring in status for more than a few seconds is difficult and fatiguing at first, but you get used to it. The camera must be hand-activated; since your fingers are required to centre and aim using a tripod with a cable release is not practicle. The ability of advanced Lensbabys to catch in place is not present here.

The aperture is controlled by small gasket-paper-like rings which you swap out by removing a teeny rubber washer from the front of the lens using the provided plastic tool, which has a storage contrivance for other aperture rings. 4 are provided, which gives you five aperture stops, counting no re-echo, which is the largest aperture. It's easy enough to change these out, but it's also very easy to drop and lose the rings or the washer when fiddling with them in the participants, so you have to be careful.

The resulting photos have been very pleasing. You can do some wild effects with this lens, and it's hard to describe it without showing you an prototype. The manufacturer's website has plenty of examples, and you cn search for more on the web. This was a good investment for me, and it adds a new, fun dimension to photgraphy.

2009-05-17 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 Di LD Macro Zoom Lens for Konica Minolta and Sony Digital SLR Cameras

List Price: $366.55 Price: Too low to display

Product Details Measures 3 inches in diameter and 4.6 inches long; weighs 15.3 ounces Easy-to-use macro switch lets you alternate between 180mm and 300mm focal lengths 70-300mm macro lens with f/4-5.6 maximum aperture for digital or 35mm cameras 9-blade circular diaphragm provides beautiful soft-focus imagery; 62mm filter diameter

Product Description

Tamron now offers a lightweight, epigrammatic, high-image-quality telephoto zoom lens with macro aptitude of 1:2 that can be used with digital cameras. This lens is a Di type lens using an visual system with improved multi-coating designed to function with digital SLR cameras as well as cover cameras. With this 70-300mm telephoto zoom lens, flipping a macro divert in the focal length range of 180mm to 300mm obtains a utmost magnification ratio of 1:2 at a minimum focus distance as low on as 37.4, enabling close-up shots of flowers, insects, and other objects that normally insist the use of a specially designed macro lens. Moreover, this is a zoom lens that informally offers the distant capture and foreshortening effect pleasures of the 300mm ultra-telephoto mankind.

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Customer Reviews

Orderly on the go
I got this lens from a playmate who called me telling there's a store having a clearance sale and he told me this lens had 90% omit so without any hesitation I asked him to buy it for me (cost 7KD = $23.5 USD). As soon as I tried it on my Sony A100 (Now A700) I knew this lens is not as documentation as the other lenses but it could handle its job nicely. It lacks quality, its Macro switch always getting on the way of the zoom rotation, has the proneness to slightly go out of focus even with spot focus and also a very slow focus. Picture quality is not as integrity either but it's good if you're not going big scale. High chromatic aberration on low apertures and hard/cutting DOF which makes the pictures less appealing and need more editing. You don't need to bother if you're going to prorate increase down pictures, you'll be on the safe side.

2010-08-27 (Kuwait City, Kuwait) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 3

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Very solicitous len for a new learner
I have no beef about this lens and will recommend it to anyone who starts to learn photography.

2010-08-27 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Celebrated for amateur photographer!
I'll start by saying that I am by no means a finished photographer. I only recently picked up my Sony a330 DSLR, and while I love everything I've been able to do with the kit lens, I recognized that I needed something else to get those alongside up shots I've desired. This lens does pretty much everything I wanted it to do without me even trying! I took it to the deposit and got some great shots of strangers walking by from at least 100 feet away. It creates in reality good bokeh and the subjects come out looking crystal clear in the foreground. The Car-fucus seems to be a bit slow, but honestly if you're shooting things from really far away, you'll probably hope for to use Manual focus anyway (at least I do). Can't wait to take this to some concerts and see what kind of shots I can get.

2010-08-12 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Good
Rightful ordered mine yesterday, got to work this morning, and received an e-mail that my lens was delivered to my entrance at 7:30am. Amazing! I'm already dumbfounded with the quick delivery time. I'm a Amazon Prime Consumer but it was faster than one-day shipping!!!

Will update this once I get home and have a chance to play with my lens!

2010-08-10 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Tamron Lens
Somewhat inexpensive. Great for an amateur photographer. Works well with Sony DSLR. Focuses instantly. Sturdy construction.

2010-08-01 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4

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Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II LD Aspherical (IF) Macro Zoom Lens for Konica Minolta and...

List Price: $644.95 Price: Too low to display

Product Details Designed to confine the changing angles of incidences of light rays reaching the imager within a certain scope Peripheral light fall-off is minimized when compared with that of conventional lenses for film cameras The Zoom Lock prevents unwanted barrel extension when carrying the lens/camera combination For digital SLR photography, it provides high image quality in terms of resolution, contrast and flatness of image field

Product Description

Tamron is proud to have introduced the manufacture of their high-power zoom lens with AF 18-200mm XR Di II -- for classy use with digital SLRs. Tamron s original development of proprietary heart technologies such as Aspherical element production, Multiple Cam Mechanism and Integrated Zero in Cam design lend to the creation of the world s lightest, most compact 11.1X zoom lens made for digital SLR cameras. The 18-200mm (28-300 when convinced to 35mm) provides the digital photographer with the versatility of a true wide to ultra tele zoom in an surprisingly easy to use design. Tamron s Di II lenses are designed for exclusive use on digital cameras with smaller-bigness imagers and inherit all of the benefits of their Di products. These lenses are not designed for conventional cameras and digital cameras with effigy sensors larger than 24mm x 16mm. Item Specifications: Product Description: Tamron A014 - zoom lens - 18 mm - 200 mm Maker Warranty: 6 years warranty Weight: 14 oz Span: 3 in Min Focus Range: 17.7 in Lens System: Zoom lens Visual Zoom: 11.1 x Lens Aperture: F/3.5-6.3 Focus Balance: Automatic, manual Focal Length: 18 mm - 200 mm Mounting Group: Minolta A-type Lens Construction: 13 group(s) / 15 fundamentals(s) Filter Size: 62 mm Special Functions: Zoom

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Customer Reviews

Decorous all around lens
I have two Sony Alpha 300 DSLRs and this lens is always on one of them. This lens has specified very satisfactory results - perhaps not as good as some of my Minolta prime lenses, but good. I wish that it was a bit faster, f/2.8, but I'm unshakeable that would put the price out of reach.

2010-01-25 (Pittsburgh, PA) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 4

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Gigantic all in one lens
Pro : so base
11x but compact size
nice image quality
Con : slow focus
noisy when centre

2009-06-10 (NewYork) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 4

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I inclination it.
I have an Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D that is no longer made. I found I couldn't use my old "coating based lenses" on this digital camera. But this Tamron lens has worked extremely well on my digital camera. I highly propound this lens. Plus you don't need to carry any other lenses when you travel. Always a good thing.

2009-05-04 (Fort Collins, CO) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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Produce all around lens
Elevated all around lens. Lightweight and durable quality back by Tamron's 6 year warranty. Chromatic abberation and pin pillow effect is evident at mid to full zoom but should not bother the casual user or amateur photorapher. You may not even mind the aberration unless you are a pro. Good low light auto-focus in tandem with the flash's or camera's built-in centre assist beam. The focus motor is quite noisy but I do love hearing the whirring wholesome as it locks in on the subject. For the price, I would recommend.

BTW, Sony sells the same focal lenght lens for $500. Sony is a biggest stockholder of Tamron (See info at Tamron's website). So one can only assume that Sony and Tamron does pay out the same technology on their lenses except for the price which is $200 less.

2009-04-05 | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 4

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Influential all-around lens
I'm only a scholar of photography, so I'm not able to get too technical in my review. I bought this lens because like most, I wanted an all-in-one lens. A lens that would countenance me to take close family shots and those distance shots; when I can't be as close as I'd like to be. I've only had this lens for a about a month now, but I must say I'm hellishly happy with the lens. With that said, I'm very big on landscape photos and not heavy into sports or fast deportment shots. The photos I've taken with this lens so far (around 500) are very crisp and clean shots.

I did inform that the lens can be a little slow on the auto focus, so beware. If you plan to only use this lens for sports and/or initiative shots, you might be a little disappointed. Otherwise, this lens is great! Now, I can get rid of my three other lenses that this single lens has replaced.

2008-12-15 | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 5

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Sigma 50mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro Lens for Minolta and Sony SLR Cameras

List Price: $420.00 Price: $299.00 You Save: $121.00 (29%)

Product Details Macro lens designed for Konica Minolta digital SLR cameras 50mm focal length f2.8 maximum aperture Screw-in lens hood included

Product Description

Optimized impression quality for Digital SLR cameras. Floating Internal Focusing (FIF) system minimizes the deviation in entire focusing range. Super Multi Layer (SML) coating reduces the phantom caused by reflections from the surface of digital image sensors. Least aperture of F/45 provides greater depth of field A deform-in hood for convenient use of circular polarizing filters MACRO 50mm F2.8 EX DG incorporates the very latest visual technology and is an ideal standard lens for digital SLR cameras. The new advocate lens design corrects various aberrations. This macro lens is exclusively coated to get the best color balance whilst cutting down spirit caused by reflections from the digital image sensor. This lens provides the utmost emendation against lateral chromatic aberration which is a serious problem for digital SLR cameras. The new MACRO 50mm F2.8 EX DG incorporates a "Floating Internal Focusing" (FIF) system which enables this lens to picture objects precisely not only at life-size reproduction but also at infinity. The lens has a least focusing distance of 18.9cm (7.4 in) and is capable of true macro photography with a limit magnification of 1:1. Experience the enjoyment of real life-value macro photography. This lens is equipped with a "Focus Limiter Swap" that limits the auto focus range, allowing the camera focus more promptly. This lens has a minimum aperture of F45 which produces a tremendous depth of battleground. A screw-in hood is included, f

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Sigma launched its first model 50mm macro lens in 1990, and followed it up with an improved model in 1998. The arrival of digital SLR cameras, however, required updated optical technology and a superiority imaging performance. Enter the latest incarnation of the 50mm macro lens, with an improved layout that corrects for various aberrations. Designed exclusively for Minolta and Sony SLR cameras, this macro lens is exclusively coated to get the best possible color balance while cutting down on ghosting caused by reflections from the digital effigy sensor. The lens also includes a floating focusing system, which allows you to scrupulously photograph objects throughout the entire focusing range. Most importantly, this gauge macro lens makes it possible to enjoy better pronunciation with your subject. When viewing through the camera's finder, you'll be able to move the subject and make careful adjustments. For example, the lens offers a close working rigidity of 7.4 inches, making it extremely convenient to take close-up pictures of a relic or other inanimate objects.

Other details include a minimum aperture of f/45 that provides a greater penetration of field than most lenses, a screw-in lens hood that makes it easy to join circular polarizing filters, and a 46.8-degree angle of estimate. All Sigma lenses carry a one-year warranty.

Specifications

• Focal thoroughly: 50mm
• Maximum aperture: f/2.8
• Lens construction: 10 elements in 9 groups
• Hunt for of view: 46.8 degrees
• Number of diaphragm blades: 7
• Least aperture: f/45
• Minimum focusing distance: 7.4 inches
• Superlative magnification: 1:1
• Filter size: 55mm
• Corresponding mount: Sony and Minolta
• Dimensions: 2.8 inches in diameter and 2.6 inches want
• Weight: 11.3 ounces
• Warranty: 1 year

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Customer Reviews

vast lens
This lens takes some of the conquer photos I have taken the color & crispness of shots is great both inside & out the detail of macro shots is lofty there may be a pro with somthing bad to say about this lens but for the money from beginer on up this lens is a must have.

2010-06-26 (SAN ANTONIO, TX, US) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Brobdingnagian Budge Macro Lens
This is a eager macro lens if you are on a budget. I was going back and forth between the Canon 50mm 2.5 and the 60mm 2.8. The Canon 50mm didn't have the ultimate reviews and I didn't want to spend another $100 for the 60mm which is an EF-S lens. The Sigma is a very sharp lens along with some extraordinary colors and smooth silky bokeh. Perfect lens for weddings (rings) and plant life. It will work well for insects as well as long as you don't spook them by getting up-close. The auto-focus tends to take crave to find the subject but no different than any other macro lens. It would be nice to be able to manually focus while in AF course. The lens hood is worthless and annoying. You have to have the lens cap off to attach the hood.

2010-06-18 | MikeyB (Apple Valley, MN) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Cardinal blend of performance and value
The Sigma's autofocus is practically useless at 1:1, but many high end, dedicated macro lenses are manual focus only. For doing licit close up work, I find manual focus is to be preferred; Autofocus is nothing but an annoying distraction.

I bought this lens to be in use accustomed to both for macro work and as a standard 50mm prime. When used at longer focal lengths the AF is frail. A bit slower than some of my other lenses but more than adequate. I have not noticed any focusing slip as one other reviewer noted. Perhaps I will with more use, but so far so good.

The images are frangible and detailed edge to edge. Although the least expensive lens I own it may well be the best for image quality!

2010-06-11 (Windham, NH) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Sigma 50mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro
What a best value for the price! I would recommend that those of us on a budget could well afford to have this high quality lens in our bag for this cost. I find that I am using it more and more and not just for maco photography. It is sharp and quick to focus. A bit of noise, but that is exceptional considering the results. It does exactly what I purchased it for. It is well built, sharp and affordable.

2010-06-05 (Georgia) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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Egregious Purchase
I bought this lens for the macro means, which worked out just fine, but what I soon discovered is that it is a great all around lens! This lens does a prodigious job of portraits and just about anything else. If you want a good macro lens and something to keep on your camera for general purpose this 50mm is a take into account. The only thing that is a little aggravating is the switch you use to go from manual to auto focus, but it is really not a big have to do with. Hard to beat this one for the money.

2010-04-26 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Tamron AF 17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di-II LD SP ZL Aspherical (IF) Zoom Lens for Konica Minolta and Sony...

List Price: $1,022.95 Price: Too low to display

Product Details Maximum aperture of f2.8 Filter diameter of 67mm Minimum focus distance of 0.27 meters over entire zoom range Sony / Minolta -compatible lens designed specifically for digital SLR's

Product Description

Di II: Lenses are expected for exclusive use on digital cameras with smaller-size imagers and be all of the benefits of our Di products. These lenses are not designed for 35mm film cameras and digital cameras with corporealization sensors larger than 24mm x 16mm. The SP AF17-50mm F/2.8 is a lightweight, condensed, fast standard zoom lens designed exclusively for digital SLR cameras, expanding the consequence concept of the popular SP AF28-75mm F/2.8 zoom lens. In in, portrait shots are made beautiful with the natural out-of-focus effect quality provided by the fast F/2.8 aperture. Additionally, a broader graphic expression through the use of faster shutter speeds as a result of the maximum chink offers enhanced photographic pleasure. The lens boasts one of the most talented close-up shooting performances in the class of fast standard zoom lenses expected exclusively for digital cameras and featuring an F/2.8 maximum space throughout the entire zoom range, to ensure stress-free exact shots at all focal lengths and distances.

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Customer Reviews

Upright value for the money
Consideration this lens if you need a fast glass for low light and indoor use. A very good lens for events such as concerts and weddings. Essence rendering overall is excellent. Images seem to pop with the right exposure. Very sharp over most of the range but a tad downy when wide open. Nothing that can't be handled with good post processing. Best performance is at f4 and beyond. Edges are a bit luxurious at 17 mm, but what wide angle isn't? AF is fast and accurate. I would have preferred a more robust lens hood, but it does the job. Complete construction is good with the use of modern plastics making it light and easy to handle. This is a data d fabric replacement for the Sony kit lens that comes with most of the Alpha series, although it is a tad short on the telephoto end. That has not been an question major for me. For the money this is a good investment and a good addition to the Alpha camera series.

2010-08-05 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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A most artistically walk-around lens if you are in a budget
The bulid value is excellent. AF is very fast, faster than any other lens I have. I use it to replace my A350 kit lens. I does what it required to do. I read some commons about it before I bought. I worried a lot about getting a bad copy. But I think my one is a good one. It is precipitous, almost as sharp as my 50mm f1.8. So go for it if you want a lens with high price/performance ratio.

2010-05-06 (Virginia) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Very acidulous, but some problems
I bought a Tamron 17-50mm lens from Amazon last week for use on a Sony A200 and it indoors promptly in the mail, intact, though minimally cushioned in a small box. I put the lens through a series of tests around the yard, glance accuracy of auto focus, better aperture settings and resolution across the images.

The lens is very calculating--and even at the wider focal lengths, holds considerable resolution of the horizon at infinity beneficial to the image margins. With the exception of the widest 17mm focal length, which had noticable corner softness (and drastic distortion) in forground elements (mostly fixed with apertures around F11), the lens produced piercing resolution right to the corners through the whole zoom range. There is very noticable distortion at 17mm, the distortion despatch diminishing at even slightly longer focal lenths on through the whole zoom range. I used mostly F8 for all the proof shots.

The lens exhibits enough chromatic aberration right up through 24mm that not all of it can be removed with post processing. Between 17mm and 24mm, there is (with my writing of this lens) an excessive, odd chromatic stain, like a green tinted halo spreading well out beyond acerbic or vertical edges, along with some ghosting of edges where light and dark meet--mostly evident on the red 1/3rd of the image frame. The green tint visible on the left side of images was wider than I've seen in any other lens and more landed--and beyond repair. There is also a noticable greenish shift in image color toward both margins of a photograph, exceptionally on the left side. This seemed consistent through most of the test shots, though it took me a while to notice it. This is not a characteristic of the camera, since another lens (a Sigma 24-60mm EX that also shows some nearly the same, though less, chromatic tinting) does not produce any color shift at the image edges.

The Tamron 17-50mm is remarkably snappy and the auto focus is consistently accurate. It should be noted that the lens focus ring markings on my likeness are not at all accurate through the entire zoom range for finding infinity focus--so auto sharply defined unclear accuracy is important. My disappointment with this lens is that the chromatic halos produced on the left side of the likeness at wider focal lengths are large enough to appear in large prints. There does seem to be a greenish schedule in color toward the left and right margins of the images shot at the wider focal lengths (17-24mm). Guessing my gain is just a less than perfect copy of the lens and I'm returning it.

2010-02-21 (SW Montana) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Leave out lens for my Sony a300.
I've been using this lens for a yoke of weeks now and am very impressed with its quality. I have used it with my Sony Alpha a300 with no issues. I'll be it to the kit lens (SAL 18-70) that it replaced as that is the only other wide zoom I've used myself.

Pros:
-The Tamron is heavier and more steadfast than the Sony lens.
-It has better sharpness throughout the frame, but especially in the corners; it's slightly sissy at f2.8 (though still better than the kit lens) and gets sharper as you stop it down.
-Using it for indoor or nighttime shooting is gigantic compared to the kit lens.
-The aperture is 2.8 throughout the zoom range, meaning that you don't lose well-lighted when you zoom in towards 50mm.
-The macro works decently well, especially with the narrow depth of field you get with a big space.

Cons:
-It doesn't go to 70mm like the kit lens, but I checked over my existing photos and barely adapted to anything past 50mm anyways, plus you get 17mm vs. 18mm on the wide end.
-Weight takes a little getting acclimated to to, but in a good way.
-Not cheap, but not too expensive compared to similar lenses.
-Slight distortion on the wide (17mm) end, though again, it's not as bad as the kit lens and you don't in point of fact notice.

I would definitely buy this lens again and would recommend it to a friend. Definitely a very good and worthwhile upgrade to the SAL 18-70 kit lens.

2009-06-02 | Helpful Votes: 6 | Rating: 4

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Profound lens+A700=Excellent Photos
This lens is an but lens. I bought it when I had my a100, and saw subtle changes in image quality.(al00 had a lot to be desired) After using it on my a700, which has an improved focusing system and the "Exmor" CMOS sensor, I am astonished at the quality I've been able to get. It took me a while to get used to how quick the focusing was; I would press the shutter partly way and often times snap the the picture by mistake. Great lens.

2009-04-19 | Alpha man (Atlanta, GA) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5

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Can you use manual Minolta camera lenses on a Digital Canon (or other brand) camera body?

Q: Anyone be sure?

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A: When Minolta introduced the to the max's first full-featured auto focus 35mm SLR, the Maxxum 7000, in 1985, they untouched their lens mount to the A-mount. All AF Maxxum lenses are compatible with the Sony DSLR camera secure. There is an adapter to allow you to use the older MC/MD manual focus lenses on the Maxxum and Sony cameras.

You can buy an adapter to allocate use of the older MC/MD Minolta lenses on a Canon DSLR and there is an adapter to use them on the Olympus 4/3 mounr DSLR.

Can I use Minolta camera lenses on a suitable digital camera with a provision for changing lenses?

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A: AS FOR TO ME Involved NOW THE MINOLTA COMPANY IS TAKEN OVER BY SONY. AND THE SONY IS LAUCHING THE NEW ALPHA SERIES DIGITAL SLR MODELS. WITH THAT ONLY YOU CAN USE THE LENSES OF MINOLTA DYNAX OR MAXXUM SERIES LENSES.

NO OTHER MANUFACTURES THE MINOLTA In accord DIGITAL CAMERA.OTHER MANUFACTURERS LIKE NIKON USES ONLY NIKON Of one mind LENSES.CANON USES THEIR OWN STANDARDS OF LENSES.

Can I use the lenses to my minolta camera with another camera?

Q: I'm virtuous curious.....I have a couple of film minolta camera's but I'd like to get a digital. I like the Nikon camera's, but have also been told that Sony bought out Minolta and their camera's may toil with the lenses I have. Does anyone know about that? And what is your opinion of Sony's digital camera's? Specifically, the ones that consider you to change the lens....not the point and shoot brand.

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A: Sony has been making dslr for 3 years now. And minolta lenses will only industry with sony. since they did buy them out. Sony is garbage. They're made cheap and use poor optics and are legitimate weird to use. Many people buy them because they're cheaper and trust the sony variety, but don't realize just because its sony doesn't mean its documentation. You might want to stick with the two larger brands for dslr cameras like nikon's d40 or canon's xsi. They have more assesories you can get and more lens options as well as are mastery cameras all around.